"KDE and Gnome does hurt Linux more than it helps"
I am sorry, but having lots of window managers does not "hurt Linux". It is quite emotionally stable. Maybe your goal is for Linux to become a popular desktop operating system for home users or for people who aren't too into computers. In that case window manager diversification hurts your goal of what Linux shold be. That is not everyone's goal. It is not "Linux's" goal.
At The Ohio State University, the computers in our computer labs are like this. Well they, from what I can figure out, are some kind of HP Xwindow terminals. So I am sure they are a breeze to admin! And from them we can either log into our accounts on the solaris server or log into NT4. All this is done over the network. I had never heard of using NT4 over an X terminal but it works great! They dont have to buy hundreds of full computers this way.
I think Bob here's got a point that this will become much more popular in the future.
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Have you ever been a monkey? Have you ever experienced what it's like to be a monkey in today's fast-paced world? Have you ever wanted to scream out "But I'm an 'ape', not a 'monkey'!" and had no one listen to your cries?
Why yes I have. In fact you are right. We monkeys ARE really humans. They made me a special keyboard so I could type this. You are so right. In fact I don't think you are crazy at all for thinking we monkeys are humans or for thinking that killing animals is the same as killing people. EEEEP EEEP! Oo oo oh AH!
Here is his contact info:
Russell H. Falconer
BakerBotts
212.408.2564
FAX 212.705.5020
russell.falconer@bakerbotts.com
30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA 44TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10112-0228
I am sure he would love to hear more of those!
Progeny is to Stormix like a modern distro is to slackware.
Are you saying slackware is not a modern distro? I am sorry but nobody can contest that slackware has the best free support system anywhere. It offers new packages in binary format sooner than almost any other distro (even though most slackers compile themselves). And slackware follows standards better than any of your "modern" distros! It is like one of the only systems where you can install the linux kernel with "make install" instead of copying it to some silly place Linus doesnt intend it to be in.
Slackware not a modern distro. Go boil your bottom you stupid son of a silly person. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-e!
FreeBSD has very poor driver support. I would have to throw out half the hardware on my desktop if I installed FreeBSD. In fact, I could not even install FreeBSD because I have new hardware (an ATA100 hard drive controller). Linux supports all my hardware fine, but FreeBSD only supports a few things. I have even asked people on freebsd newsgroups and such if there is a way to install FreeBSD to an ATA100 IDE controller, and they have had no answer.
I like freebsd a lot. I think it is a lot more coherent. But since it doesnt support a lot of my hardware that I NEED to use it, it will not be on my desktop.
Now when building servers one can select hardware that is known to be freebsd supported. That is why it is used on servers. But on the average desktop, especially with newer hardware, freebsd just would not cut it.
If he has 700 hours and is practically a professional cosmonaut, russia should make him one and assign him to a mission on Mir. I mean it is not like NASA can tell Russia what cosmonauts they can use!
You know solving the keyword problem woulnt be too hard. I mean if yahoo had an option where you could submit a site that you think had off-topic keywords (like if it were a porn site and it had the keyword 'girl scouts' or something children might be searching for) and they would completely remove all occurances of an offending site from their database, then maybe things could be well classified. People would only use on-topic keywords so that they dont get banned from yahoo.
This would make searches SO much more acurate. It would just take someone to have the balls to say "you are abusing the keywords so now nobody will ever get to your site from our search engine."
This is excellent. I know lots of people who cant afford $200 for an operating system. I mean I live in a poor area where a lot of kids who have computers only have them because people donate their old PCs to them. These kids DO infringe copyright to get windows on to their computers.
I am sure there are lots of people like this.
But, if they had no choice but to pay the microsoft tax, there is no doubt in my mind that windows market share will go WAY down. By at LEAST 10% very quickly. More people will be using free software thanks to Microsoft. I can't wait.
Hey that pink goo cloging your inbox is not spam! It is the negative enegery of the entire city channeled into one form. Pretty soon that pink goo is going to form a dome over the museam and Vego the Carpathian is going to try to take over the city!
So why don't we come up with something better? Shouldn't it be possible to come up with a way to DNS that doesn't have to be centralized? Or -- since such a thing wouldn't really be DNS any more -- something that would be backward compatible with DNS that wouldn't have to be centralized?
Decentralized like gnutella? Where everyone on the decentralized network has to trust everyone else? Decentralized does not work, because if one computer starts sending out the wrong data they can screw up the system for everyone else. Never trust the cleints to forward what you want properly. It just can't work.
I mean this is awesome news. It is almost unbelievable. NASA needs this PR. But how can people at home verify that this actually happened? Can telescopes see that far? I dont think so. All we have to believe them is their word, and people in desperate need of funding may do desperate things to get the PR they need to get it.
I am NOT saying that I think this happened at all. I am just saying that we have no way of verifying that this is true.
Well I dont want to start any conspiracy theories, I just thought others might find this possability interesting.
Why would it take much extra fuel for it to go back to earth if they could make it take off? An object in motion will remain in motion in a straight line at constand velocity unless acted upon by an outside force.
So if they can get a probe to land and take off, they can get the samples back to earth. All they really need is a little extra fuel to compensate for the small amount of gas in space.
Actually, it means people will start calling modems by their proper names again instead of "winmodem". If a modem does all the modulation/demodulation in the hardware, it is a hard-modem, and if it does that in software you must install, it is a soft-modem.
I have always called them that. I *hate* the word "winmodem".
Look, a lot of people complain that there is too much "bloat" in some software (like tar with the z option), especially with GNU tools. But what these people dont realize is that a lot of this stuff doesn't add to code bloat at all! For instance, the z option in tar is just like 2 lines of source code to make a call to the gzip library! Now, if tar were compiled statically, yeah, this would cause bloat. But that kind of stuff is almost always dynamically compiled, so it really doesnt add anything at all to tar!
So dont complain about bloat when there isn't any! The joy of shared libraries!
The idea that all we want is voice communication is silly. Video communication is the way of the future. I am a freshman in college and my girlfriend is a high school senior. I hardly ever get to see her in person but I get to see her every day on the internet! I bought $20 netcams (Logitech QuicCam Express) for me and her, and now we doo FREE video phone calls every day. The audio quality is perfect, and the video is great considering the cheapness of the cammeras.
Basically what I am saying is the Telcos are going down because they simplay CAN NOT compete with this technology. Video is much cooler than voice. I can do video free with the internet. I can only do voice with the telcos and that costs money.
Now if only there were linux or bsd drivers for USB webcams and linux or bsd streaming audio/video apps...
well that is the way it is in dreese labs. i know the OSU open source club was working on the beowulf cluster and someone plugged in an ethernet card and an alarm went off or something.
The next big thing in firewalling is going to be insulating your entire building with aluminum foil so no radio signals get outside:)
Next thing you know cisco will be buying Reynolds (makers of reynolds wrap aluminum foil) to encorporate the new high tech, high security technology the food storage company has been developing. Buy stock.
At Ohio State University, if you plug a computer into an ethernet port and they havent autorized that port to be used, an alarm goes off, you get no network connectivity, and you get located fast. They did this for the exact reason you are talking about, so nobody could bug the network by plugging in to an ethernet port in some back closet where nobody would notice.
Pretty good system if you ask me, although I couldn't explain exactly how it works.
I know exactly what you mean, but when I got my computer, I definately DID get a DVD rom with it. I did NOT, however, get an MPAA-sanctioned dvd DECODER card with it. Nor did I buy dvd decrypting software.
You see, the MPAA has nothing to do with a dvd rom. Suse linux comes on a DVD. Lots of data is stored on a data DVD. Now, if you buy a dvd decoder card, some money goes to the MPAA. But just a dvdrom is definately a useful adition to a computer.
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I am sorry, but having lots of window managers does not "hurt Linux". It is quite emotionally stable. Maybe your goal is for Linux to become a popular desktop operating system for home users or for people who aren't too into computers. In that case window manager diversification hurts your goal of what Linux shold be. That is not everyone's goal. It is not "Linux's" goal.
I think Bob here's got a point that this will become much more popular in the future.
Why yes I have. In fact you are right. We monkeys ARE really humans. They made me a special keyboard so I could type this. You are so right. In fact I don't think you are crazy at all for thinking we monkeys are humans or for thinking that killing animals is the same as killing people. EEEEP EEEP! Oo oo oh AH!
Here is his contact info:
Russell H. Falconer
BakerBotts
212.408.2564
FAX 212.705.5020
russell.falconer@bakerbotts.com
30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA 44TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10112-0228
I am sure he would love to hear more of those!
Here is his contact info: Russell H. Falconer BakerBotts 212.408.2564 FAX 212.705.5020 russell.falconer@bakerbotts.com 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA 44TH FLOOR NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10112-0228 I am sure he would love to hear more of those!
Are you saying slackware is not a modern distro? I am sorry but nobody can contest that slackware has the best free support system anywhere. It offers new packages in binary format sooner than almost any other distro (even though most slackers compile themselves). And slackware follows standards better than any of your "modern" distros! It is like one of the only systems where you can install the linux kernel with "make install" instead of copying it to some silly place Linus doesnt intend it to be in.
Slackware not a modern distro. Go boil your bottom you stupid son of a silly person. Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-e!
All this does is project the image of someons upper body to a 40" by 30" flat clear screen. Just a tinsey tiny step above webcams if you ask me.
Fine. Then you can have your money back.
FreeBSD has very poor driver support. I would have to throw out half the hardware on my desktop if I installed FreeBSD. In fact, I could not even install FreeBSD because I have new hardware (an ATA100 hard drive controller). Linux supports all my hardware fine, but FreeBSD only supports a few things. I have even asked people on freebsd newsgroups and such if there is a way to install FreeBSD to an ATA100 IDE controller, and they have had no answer.
I like freebsd a lot. I think it is a lot more coherent. But since it doesnt support a lot of my hardware that I NEED to use it, it will not be on my desktop.
Now when building servers one can select hardware that is known to be freebsd supported. That is why it is used on servers. But on the average desktop, especially with newer hardware, freebsd just would not cut it.
If he has 700 hours and is practically a professional cosmonaut, russia should make him one and assign him to a mission on Mir. I mean it is not like NASA can tell Russia what cosmonauts they can use!
You know solving the keyword problem woulnt be too hard. I mean if yahoo had an option where you could submit a site that you think had off-topic keywords (like if it were a porn site and it had the keyword 'girl scouts' or something children might be searching for) and they would completely remove all occurances of an offending site from their database, then maybe things could be well classified. People would only use on-topic keywords so that they dont get banned from yahoo.
This would make searches SO much more acurate. It would just take someone to have the balls to say "you are abusing the keywords so now nobody will ever get to your site from our search engine."
This is excellent. I know lots of people who cant afford $200 for an operating system. I mean I live in a poor area where a lot of kids who have computers only have them because people donate their old PCs to them. These kids DO infringe copyright to get windows on to their computers.
I am sure there are lots of people like this.
But, if they had no choice but to pay the microsoft tax, there is no doubt in my mind that windows market share will go WAY down. By at LEAST 10% very quickly. More people will be using free software thanks to Microsoft. I can't wait.
Looks like it is time to call the ghostbusters!
It has been ruled that the German Transportation Department is liable for drivers who trade drugs by driving on buplic roads.
Go Germany.
So why don't we come up with something better? Shouldn't it be possible to come up with a way to DNS that doesn't have to be centralized? Or -- since such a thing wouldn't really be DNS any more -- something that would be backward compatible with DNS that wouldn't have to be centralized?
Decentralized like gnutella? Where everyone on the decentralized network has to trust everyone else? Decentralized does not work, because if one computer starts sending out the wrong data they can screw up the system for everyone else. Never trust the cleints to forward what you want properly. It just can't work.
I am NOT saying that I think this happened at all. I am just saying that we have no way of verifying that this is true.
Well I dont want to start any conspiracy theories, I just thought others might find this possability interesting.
So if they can get a probe to land and take off, they can get the samples back to earth. All they really need is a little extra fuel to compensate for the small amount of gas in space.
Actually, it means people will start calling modems by their proper names again instead of "winmodem". If a modem does all the modulation/demodulation in the hardware, it is a hard-modem, and if it does that in software you must install, it is a soft-modem.
I have always called them that. I *hate* the word "winmodem".
Look, a lot of people complain that there is too much "bloat" in some software (like tar with the z option), especially with GNU tools. But what these people dont realize is that a lot of this stuff doesn't add to code bloat at all! For instance, the z option in tar is just like 2 lines of source code to make a call to the gzip library! Now, if tar were compiled statically, yeah, this would cause bloat. But that kind of stuff is almost always dynamically compiled, so it really doesnt add anything at all to tar!
So dont complain about bloat when there isn't any! The joy of shared libraries!
The idea that all we want is voice communication is silly. Video communication is the way of the future. I am a freshman in college and my girlfriend is a high school senior. I hardly ever get to see her in person but I get to see her every day on the internet! I bought $20 netcams (Logitech QuicCam Express) for me and her, and now we doo FREE video phone calls every day. The audio quality is perfect, and the video is great considering the cheapness of the cammeras.
Basically what I am saying is the Telcos are going down because they simplay CAN NOT compete with this technology. Video is much cooler than voice. I can do video free with the internet. I can only do voice with the telcos and that costs money.
Now if only there were linux or bsd drivers for USB webcams and linux or bsd streaming audio/video apps...
well that is the way it is in dreese labs. i know the OSU open source club was working on the beowulf cluster and someone plugged in an ethernet card and an alarm went off or something.
The next big thing in firewalling is going to be insulating your entire building with aluminum foil so no radio signals get outside :)
Next thing you know cisco will be buying Reynolds (makers of reynolds wrap aluminum foil) to encorporate the new high tech, high security technology the food storage company has been developing. Buy stock.
At Ohio State University, if you plug a computer into an ethernet port and they havent autorized that port to be used, an alarm goes off, you get no network connectivity, and you get located fast. They did this for the exact reason you are talking about, so nobody could bug the network by plugging in to an ethernet port in some back closet where nobody would notice.
Pretty good system if you ask me, although I couldn't explain exactly how it works.
and you forgot the Tool Kit part!
:)
hehe, good try!
I know exactly what you mean, but when I got my computer, I definately DID get a DVD rom with it. I did NOT, however, get an MPAA-sanctioned dvd DECODER card with it. Nor did I buy dvd decrypting software.
You see, the MPAA has nothing to do with a dvd rom. Suse linux comes on a DVD. Lots of data is stored on a data DVD. Now, if you buy a dvd decoder card, some money goes to the MPAA. But just a dvdrom is definately a useful adition to a computer.